Trains in the Douro (Video)

[Roy Hersh]

This film was circa 1950-1960, how cool is this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... BDnGJP-XPg#!

[Andy Velebil]

Very cool. IIRC there are still a couple of the old steam trains sitting in the Regua rail yard. All I can say is that had to be one slow journey from Oporto up into the heart of the Douro Valley.

[Roy Hersh]

In Zev's film, Francisco Olazabal talks about this very topic and the length of time it took for a train to go all the way up to Pocinho (last stop in Portugal) from Porto. Things have really progressed since the 19th century.

[Andy Velebil]

In Zev's film, Francisco Olazabal talks about this very topic and the length of time it took for a train to go all the way up to Pocinho (last stop in Portugal) from Porto. Things have really progressed since the 19th century.

I remember Paul Symington recalling a story about how the train arrived early at Vesuvio one day. Someone yelled across the river on a megaphone from Qta d. S. d. Riberia to the train telling them they were early and to wait for their guests to get across the river in a boat. The reply from the train was something like, "Were not early, were late. We are the train from yesterday!" Apparently the train was delayed for some reason and was almost a full 24 hours late!

[Roy Hersh]

It was a nice change of pace taking the train from Porto to Regua for the first time in several years.